The children of EYFS had a brilliant time on their trip to Denton library. We listened to stories related to our “We are Explorers” theme, sang nursery rhymes and explored the library together.

A big thanks to our parent helpers who came along. 

We have sent home application forms for you to complete if your child is not already a Tameside library member.  It is fabulous and absolutely free!

As part of our learning about growing this half term, the children of F2 have been doing lots of growing, including growing cress.  We have written instructions out for how to do this so that the nursery children can have a go at growing some too.  We are keeping a cress diary to record its progress.  Next, we are going to conduct some experiments to find out if cress can grow without water, or without light.

F2 went on a local walk to find the places of work of different people who help us in our community in Denton.  We used this information to make a map of our local area, showing the different places that we visited.

Today in F2 we were lucky enough to have a visit from a science teacher. He talked to the children about science and we shared some amazing experiments. We have a class of happy, budding scientists! 

After last week’s floating and sinking experiments, where we found out that the shape of an object affected whether it can float or sink rather than just the weight, this week we got creative.  After looking at lots of different types of boats, we then designed and made our own boats for Noi’s Dad (from our Storm Whale in Winter story).  Once we had made our boats, we tested them to check that they could float in our water area.

The children of F2 have loved using our crates to create a cosy new home for Stick Man and his family.

After reading a non-fiction book about winter and finding out that food is scarce for birds, the children of F2 have been making bird feeders for our outdoor area.

The children of F2 are really enjoying retelling the Stick Man story on our small world tray.

The children of F2 have had an amazing time exploring the winter weather.  We have been comparing it to the season of Autumn and painting our own beautiful winter trees.

The children of F2 did an amazing job getting creative around the theme of the Nativity.  We are artists!

The children of F2 all sang and danced their hearts out at Our First Nativity.

The children of F2 loved learning about how Diwali is celebrated.  We even made our own Diva lamps from salt dough.

The children of F2 loved our visit to Denton Library.  We can’t wait to go back again soon!

The children of F2 learned that on Remembrance Day, we are remembering the soldiers who fought in the war a long time ago.  We created out own poppy art in the classroom, including a wreath to leave at the cenotaph on our class visit.

Bill the owl came to visit us in our classroom! We asked him lots of questions.  We found out that he was bored of eating mice, so we have helped him by writing shopping lists using our phonic knowledge of different foods to try.

After going on an Autumn walk to explore the changes in our season, we created our own paintings of Autumn trees.  We focused on our vocabulary words of roots, trunk and branches.  We also did some colour mixing to create our own Autumnal shades.